Opera Omnia

FIRST PART
WOMAN CAN AND MUST MAKE HERSELF COOPERATOR OF PRIESTLY ZEAL

PREAMBLE
Without zeal, no one can ever think of a true priest: and most ardent zeal for the salvation of souls.
Zeal would not be effective if all the means are not applied. Among these, there is¹ one most strong: women. In fact today, a movement of markedly good feminism is taking place in the Church. It is ever more expanding and intensifying. It is the mission of women that is being placed at the service of the Church. It is a work required by the nature of woman, a work that is repeated in every historical movement, a work that is most convenient also at the present times.
This is what we wish to take up in this first part.

SECOND PART
IN OUR TIMES IN WHAT WORKS CAN WOMAN ASSIST THE PRIESTLY ZEAL

PREAMBLE
Women can assist priests in their most lofty and delicate mission above all as individuals: in the second place as members of families: lastly, as members of society. These three states, in which women can find themselves, shall be like three headings wherein shall be shown the ways that are available to the spiritual activity of the woman-apostle.

THIRD PART
HOW THE PRIEST CAN TRAIN AND LEAD WOMEN IN THEIR MISSION

PREAMBLE
This is the most practical: this is what has been aimed at by what has been said till now.
We would begin with examining some defects of the current spiritual direction of women and with studying the necessary qualities of the priest for this duty. Then, we shall speak of the duty that every priest has and that which is reserved to the parish priest: the formation of women for virtue and zeal: the mission of women and its exercise.
It is not possible to exhaust in so few pages such a broad topic. I believe it more useful to advise the reading of some of the following books that can be called the literature